UPSC Mains 2018 · GS II · Q7 · 10 marks · 150 words

Appropriate local community-level healthcare intervention is a prerequisite to achieve ‘Health for All’ in India. Explain.

हिन्दी में

भारत में ‘सभी के लिए स्वास्थ्य’ को प्राप्त करने के लिए समुचित स्थानीय सामुदायिक स्तरीय स्वास्थ्य देखभाल का मध्यक्षेप एक पूर्वापेक्षा है। व्याख्या कीजिए।

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Toppers wrote this one in a test series: “What roles do community-based interventions play in enhancing access to preventive and promotive services in India?”

Ria Kaur SethiAIR 89 · CSE 2024 · 151 wordsTheir whole copy

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Healthcare currently in budget 2024 has been given an allocation of 2.8% of GDP. Role of community based interventions in enhancing access to preventive & promotive healthcare

Body · points and prose

| | | Curative Palliative Geriatric

Role of community based interventions in enhancing access to preventive & promotive healthcare

  1. Helps build trust & social capital → Recent initiative of malnutrition removing kits by IAS officer → using food items from SHG's → improved healthcare access & community spirit.

  2. Jan Sunwaai for issues related to Primary health care → accountability will be established.

  3. Civil society can play a major role through digital health care interventions → e Sanjeevani portal for health.

  4. AYUSH infiltration in community can contribute to preventive health care.

However challenges present

  1. Social cleavages of caste, class, gender.

  2. Lack of focus on preventive health care.

  3. Geriatric healthcare given less focus even as aging to reach 22% by 2050.

Close · a way forward

Hence Jan Andolan of healthcare is needed to make a healthy, fit & productive Viksit Bharat 2047.

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Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Main) Examination 2018, General Studies Paper II, Q7. The paper on upsc.gov.in. Themes and links to toppers’ answers are by UPSC Grade, not by UPSC.